COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "It got to the point that hundreds of representatives from various NGOs walked out of the negotiating rooms to protest against developed countries’ reluctance to commit to a loss and damage mechanism. And this was a day after the G77+China group of 133 developing countries walked out of negotiations over the same thing.

Looking through the briefing reports from the respected NGO, the Third World Network, "

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Truth Seeking: The Truth About Nocturnal People - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Truth Seeking: The Truth About Nocturnal People - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com: "The biggest misconception about nocturnals is that they are lazy. The assumption is that because they sleep all day, night owls don't get anything done. In fact, most nocturnal people are highly productive. Their minds and bodies are more active and alert at night, and without the distractions of the daytime world, they can easily concentrate on the tasks in front of them and get more done.""

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COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "Countries like Germany, Switzerland and others in Europe only managed to scrape together promises of 110 million dollars into the Green Climate Fund. Developing countries wanted a guarantee of 70 billion a year by 2016 but were blocked by the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan and others."

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COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "Countries like Germany, Switzerland and others in Europe only managed to scrape together promises of 110 million dollars into the Green Climate Fund. Developing countries wanted a guarantee of 70 billion a year by 2016 but were blocked by the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan and others."

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Naturally improve your sleep by avoiding blue light

Naturally improve your sleep by avoiding blue light: "(NaturalNews) In order to fall asleep, the human body produces melatonin, a hormone created in the pineal gland. Melatonin allows the body to relax enough to sleep, allowing it to follow the natural circadian rhythm. However, some environmental factors can interfere with the production of melatonin and make falling asleep naturally a highly difficult task. One such factor is blue light."

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COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "Countries like Germany, Switzerland and others in Europe only managed to scrape together promises of 110 million dollars into the Green Climate Fund. Developing countries wanted a guarantee of 70 billion a year by 2016 but were blocked by the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan and others."

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COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "In 2009 at the semi-infamous Copenhagen talks, the rich countries made a deal with developing countries, saying in effect: “We’ll give you billions of dollars for adaptation, ramping up to 100 billion dollars a year by 2020, in exchange for our mitigation amounting to small CO2 cuts instead of making the big cuts that we should do.”"

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The Growth Hacker's Dilemma: Process vs. Tactics

The Growth Hacker's Dilemma: Process vs. Tactics: "Question - Why do visitors leave our registration flow after the first page?
Hypothesis - They might be leaving because page two has too many form fields present and this scares them away.
Prediction - If we have more registration pages, but less form fields on each page, then our completed registrations will increase in statistically significant ways that could not be the product of chance."

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A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder

A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder: "You should feel totally confident that when they say they are going to do something it will get done -- and done exceptionally well.

3. High Determination Quotient - OK, so I lied: There are two guarantees I can make about starting a company - the second is that you will get rejected (over and over again). Can this person handle that kind of negative feedback? "

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From: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/104056/A-Tech-Founder-s-Guide-To-Picking-A-Non-Tech-Founder.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+onstartups+%28OnStartups%29

A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder

A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder: "When you start a company or a side project there are few guarantees. Pretty much the only one I can make is that there will be a large body of work that comes your way that neither you nor your cofounder(s) have ever faced before. This heap of work will far outnumber the portion you have actually encountered. Can your cofounder figure sh*t out?"

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A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder

A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder: "giving them objective “tests” that help you determine their abilities, white board problems, coding projects, pair-programming sessions. Even if you’re not technical and you have someone do a coding project, you can easily show it to technical friends and advisors and quickly get their expert opinions. "

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Drawing and animation | Computer programming | Khan Academy | Khan Academy

Drawing and animation | Computer programming | Khan Academy | Khan Academy:

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Philip Rosedale - Founder of Coffee and Power | Philip Rosedale - Founder and Chairman of Second Life | Khan Academy

Philip Rosedale - Founder of Coffee and Power | Philip Rosedale - Founder and Chairman of Second Life | Khan Academy: "hey, i love this idea - especially as a freelancer who mostly works from home, or coffee shops :) coffeeandpower.com is not working - is this the right website for this?"

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "Why mobile? Mobile phones are outselling laptops and more and more people are using their mobile devices for everything. Everything. Pinterest is awesome, but they haven't figured out how to make that mobile crossover. Google+ is a great mobile-based social networking site that businesses should shift over to – tons of room for visual communication there as well."

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Promote Computer Science | Code.org

Promote Computer Science | Code.org: "
President Bill Clinton
“At a time when people are saying "I want a good job - I got out of college and I couldnt find one," every single year in America there is a standing demand for 120,000 people who are training in computer science.“"

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Promote Computer Science | Code.org

Promote Computer Science | Code.org: "Computer science is driving job growth and innovation throughout our economy and society. More than half of projected jobs in STEM fields are in computing occupations; these occupations dominate "help wanted" ads; and computer science is one of the hottest degrees for new college graduates"

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Anybody can learn | Code.org

Anybody can learn | Code.org: "Sign your name if you think every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science
If you agree, sign your name. Join 1,147,837 others."

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Gee, it makes sense to me.